blattan.

Forms: Also anglicized in 1600s blat.

Etymology: Latin.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈblatta.

1. By Roman writers and their translators applied to various insects shunning the light: a kind of moth, mite, or beetle. Vaguely and empirically used by 17th cent. writers, but at length specialized as the generic name of the Cockroach.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dictyoptera > member of genus Blatta (cockroach)

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1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 370 Two or three of these flies called Blattæ sodden in oile, make a soueraigne medicine to cure the eares.

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 998 There are three sorts of Blattæ; the soft Moth, the mill Moth, and the unsavoury or stinking Moth.

1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 998 The worms of the belly some call Blattæ. Cardanus in one place calleth the worms that breed in meal or bran, Blattæ... The Blatta is an Insect flying in the night, like to a Beetle, but wanteth the sheath wings.

1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxiii. 179 Destroyed by the blata or cockroaches.

1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. ix. 255 The all-devouring Blatta.

1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1832) II. 148 The devastation of the ants and blattæ.

2. Purple; purple silk.

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1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 999 Much variety of opinion there is..of the colour of the Blat Moth, or the Blattean colour. For if these Insects..are the Blattæ truly so called, why should not the black be the Blat colour, rather than red purple colours?

1876 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (new ed.) v. 39 The costly purple-dyed silks called ‘blatta.’

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	blatta
释义	blattan. Forms: Also anglicized in 1600s blat. Etymology: Latin.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈblatta. 1. By Roman writers and their translators applied to various insects shunning the light: a kind of moth, mite, or beetle. Vaguely and empirically used by 17th cent. writers, but at length specialized as the generic name of the Cockroach. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > [noun] > member of > defined by habits or actions > that shuns light blatta1601 the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Dictyoptera > member of genus Blatta (cockroach) blatta1601 cockroach1616 mill moth1658 twitch-ballock1757 drummer1764 mill beetle1771 kakkerlak1813 roach1822 twitch-clock1843 twitch-cloga1876 cocky1931 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World II. 370 Two or three of these flies called Blattæ sodden in oile, make a soueraigne medicine to cure the eares. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 998 There are three sorts of Blattæ; the soft Moth, the mill Moth, and the unsavoury or stinking Moth. 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 998 The worms of the belly some call Blattæ. Cardanus in one place calleth the worms that breed in meal or bran, Blattæ... The Blatta is an Insect flying in the night, like to a Beetle, but wanteth the sheath wings. 1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xxiii. 179 Destroyed by the blata or cockroaches. 1815 W. Kirby & W. Spence Introd. Entomol. I. ix. 255 The all-devouring Blatta. 1830 C. Lyell Princ. Geol. (1832) II. 148 The devastation of the ants and blattæ. 2. Purple; purple silk. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from silk > [noun] > types of > of specific colour tsatlee1848 blatta1876 1658 J. Rowland tr. T. Moffett Theater of Insects in Topsell's Hist. Four-footed Beasts (rev. ed.) 999 Much variety of opinion there is..of the colour of the Blat Moth, or the Blattean colour. For if these Insects..are the Blattæ truly so called, why should not the black be the Blat colour, rather than red purple colours? 1876 D. Rock Textile Fabrics (new ed.) v. 39 The costly purple-dyed silks called ‘blatta.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1887; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1601
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